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CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees
Media | 03/22/2023 1:03 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total broadcasting regulatory costs of the commission are $34.228 million, up slightly from last year’s total.
The net billing fee for the fiscal year is $34.303 million. The...
CRTC grants Indigenous station radio license
Media | 03/09/2023 3:01 pm EST
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf of Piikani Tsi Nii Ka Sin Broadcasting Association to broadcast a low-power Indigenous FM radio station in Brocket, Alberta.
Piikani Broadcasting is a not-for-profit,...
CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture
Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
CRTC won’t grant Yellowknife FM station, two commissioners dissent
Media | 02/15/2023 5:01 pm EST
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
Ethics commissioner finds MP Fergus violated rules with letter to CRTC
Media | 02/14/2023 2:20 pm EST
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
CRTC vice-chair broadcasting prioritizing public policy goals over financial implications of C-11
Media | 01/24/2023 6:19 pm EST
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
CRTC calls for FM radio applications in Joliette, Que.
Media | 01/23/2023 3:06 pm EST
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for applications for a new FM station in the region. The process was spurred on by a 2021 request from Arsenal Media Inc. seeking a second FM station in the city.
Arsenal currently operates CJLM-FM in...
CRTC awards Mennonite group FM station in Alberta
Media | 01/17/2023 5:20 pm EST
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...
London Ont. to get commercial ethnic radio station
Media | 01/16/2023 4:09 pm EST
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
CRTC revamps Canadian content regulations for radio; CAB dismayed
Media | 12/07/2022 5:43 pm EST
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
CRTC to hold hearings on radio station proposals
Media | 12/05/2022 3:57 pm EST
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before...
Keep CanCon requirements for Rogers community radio, FRPC tells CRTC
Media | 12/01/2022 9:35 am EST
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the...
Group suing CRTC worried language-minority groups will get left out of consultations, Senate hears
Media | 10/06/2022 10:51 am EDT
Executives from the French-language music group...
CRTC rejects new commercial radio station for Rouyn-Noranda, Que.; will put community radio application to a hearing
Media | 09/22/2022 5:08 pm EDT
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report
Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
Sarnia, Ont., won’t see new radio stations for at least 2 years: CRTC
Media | 07/27/2022 2:32 pm EDT
The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language low-power commercial FM radio station in...
Radio-Canada personalities say mandated apology for using French N-word is censorship
Media | 07/04/2022 5:29 pm EDT
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital
Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia
Media | 04/22/2022 2:39 pm EDT
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.
Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June
Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's broadcasting license through Aug. 30 of this year, over a year after the regulator held hearings into the...
CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap
Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...
Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation
Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
CRTC holding hearing for Indigenous radio, French-language radio, applications
Media | 03/07/2022 3:59 pm EST
The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...
Wide support for new community ethnic station in Winnipeg
Media | 01/28/2022 2:47 pm EST
The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM...
CRTC approves migration of Atlantic stations from AM to FM
Media | 01/26/2022 3:33 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island
Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...
CRTC CPE deferral will mean revenue in 2023: Corus CEO
Media | 01/13/2022 5:07 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
CRTC solicits comments on FM radio applications
Media | 11/12/2021 12:39 pm EST
The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...
CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station
Media | 10/08/2021 6:27 pm EDT
The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate a "low-power, ethnic specialty commercial"radio station in the Mennonite community of La Crête,...
CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications
Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Local Radio Lab acquiring three stations in Ontario
Media | 06/25/2021 1:27 pm EDT
Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC. The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...
CRTC rejects Amherstburg FM station proposal, citing Windsor radio market impact
Media | 06/17/2021 5:53 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
CRTC approves broadcasting licence for Mohawk station in Quebec
Media | 06/14/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...
Stingray gets French designation for HITS service
Media | 06/02/2021 5:28 pm EDT
The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service. According to the decision, the HITS service was designated as English-language programming in March 2020 when the CRTC approved a separate application from Stingray for a broadcasting licence for the then-exempt service. That application proposed musical programming centring on popular video clips from the last 20 years, 40 per cent of which would be in French, and that it would eventually...
Fort Erie radio station must keep 3 hours of news per week: CRTC
Media | 05/11/2021 5:36 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming...
Indigenous non-profit takes over Quebec station after 3 year radio silence
Media | 05/11/2021 5:09 pm EDT
Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka,...
Supreme Court to hear making available right dispute
Media | 04/26/2021 5:55 pm EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Numerous groups urge CRTC not to cut CanCon quotas for radio
Media | 04/01/2021 4:39 pm EDT
Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the...
Canadian radio broadcasters ask CRTC for space to compete with streamers
Media | 03/30/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
Half of Canadians want CanCon regs for music streaming services: CRTC survey
Media | 02/23/2021 5:19 pm EST
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...
Intervention deadline extended for commercial radio review
Media | 01/11/2021 5:37 pm EST
The CRTC has extended its deadline for interventions to its commercial radio policy framework review following a procedural request from various associations representing the music sector....
Court won’t hear appeal over CRTC’s radio licence denial
Media | 01/04/2021 4:52 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application for leave to appeal by a broadcaster whose radio licence was denied renewal by the CRTC. The CRTC denied the licence renewal for Groupe...
CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media
Media | 11/19/2020 5:40 pm EST
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s radio stations to more effectively compete with streaming giants like Spotify AB, according to Bell...
CRTC consulting on its commercial radio policy
Media | 11/13/2020 10:17 am EST
The CRTC has launched a consultation to review its regulatory framework for the commercial radio sector. It said in Thursday’s notice of consultation that it’s looking to “update the regulatory framework to best serve the...
Community radio pushes back on CAB CanCon relief request
Media | 10/30/2020 12:41 pm EDT
The National Campus and Community Radio Association, Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec have filed a joint intervention arguing...
Radio station appealing CRTC licence denial in court
Media | 09/09/2020 4:44 pm EDT
After the CRTC refused to renew its broadcast licence earlier this summer, Groupe Médias Pam Inc. has turned to the Federal Court of Appeal, asking it to overturn that CRTC decision. In July, the regulator denied the renewal...
COVID has accelerated media ‘crisis’: report
Media | 08/26/2020 5:17 pm EDT
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
Iqaluit radio stations licences renewed despite non-compliance
Media | 08/25/2020 5:23 pm EDT
Two Nunavut radio stations owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. have had their broadcasting licences extended for just two years after the CRTC found they had failed to comply with a series of licence conditions. In a Tuesday decision, the CRTC extended the licences for CKGC-FM Iqaluit and CKIQ-FM Iqaluit until Aug. 31, 2022, ruling a shorter extension was necessary due to “the seriousness of the various instances of non-compliance,” as well as instances of non-compliance during the previous licence term. Both stations failed to complete annual returns for the new and...
Broadcasters asked CRTC for emergency COVID-19 relief in July
Media | 08/21/2020 4:31 pm EDT
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters asked the CRTC not to enforce...
Cogeco radio feels COVID hit, but overall revenues increase
telecom | 07/16/2020 4:42 pm EDT
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...
CRTC denies applications for new radio stations in Vancouver, Grande Prairie
Media | 07/06/2020 4:24 pm EDT
The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in...
Q3 ‘very tough’ for Corus as ad revenues plummet
Media | 06/26/2020 3:27 pm EDT
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
No new commercial radio stations in Scarborough, CRTC says
Media | 06/26/2020 3:07 pm EDT
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
CRTC to put commercial radio policy framework under the microscope
Media | 01/28/2020 2:23 pm EST
The CRTC will review the policy framework surrounding commercial radio in Canada, including media consolidation rules, quotas of Canadian content and limits on the amount of top 40 songs...
No plans to change alerts system, for now: CRTC
telecom | 01/13/2020 5:18 pm EST
The CRTC says there’s no immediate plans to change the regulations governing Canada’s emergency alert system after an Ontario -wide alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was sent in error. ...
Corus TV revenues up, radio down
telecom | 01/10/2020 5:42 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
Alberta court bans station from using Corus trademark legacy
Media | 11/19/2019 5:39 pm EST
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use of the broadcaster’s lapsed trademark by a radio station that just rebranded this summer.
Power 107 is a pop music station run by Calgary-based Harvard Broadcasting Inc. that launched in...
Bell and Stingray partner on targeted ads for radio, audio streaming
Media | 09/26/2019 5:05 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
CRTC commissioning research on global public broadcasters
Media | 07/29/2019 12:54 pm EDT
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
CRTC approves Stingray Alta. radio station buy
Media | 07/15/2019 4:59 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
Broadcast news tax credit exclusion means cuts ‘inevitable’: CAB
Media | 07/02/2019 5:27 pm EDT
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
Scott says CRTC willing to be ‘flexible’ in future radio regulation
Media | 06/06/2019 1:41 pm EDT
CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for commercial radio. According to a copy of his speech to the annual conference of the Western Association of Broadcasters, Scott said the regulator is “in the early stages of preparing for a comprehensive review of our commercial radio policy.” The CRTC’s three-year forecast mentions the review...
Cogeco calling for radio representation on tax credit panel
Media | 05/22/2019 5:25 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Rogers buys podcast producer Pacific Content
Media | 05/01/2019 5:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the Vancouver-based podcast company Pacific Content. “Podcasting is a big part of the future of audio. We quickly identified its immense potential and are being...
Corus’ turnaround partly propelled by ads returning to linear
Media | 04/05/2019 6:36 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
CRTC consulting on Vancouver radio market capacity
telecom | 04/04/2019 3:28 pm EDT
The CRTC wants to know whether the Vancouver radio market can sustain another radio station, after it received an application from Rogers Communications Inc. for a new broadcasting licence. It said in the notice of consultation...
Bell asks to shut down 28 rebroadcasting transmitters
telecom | 03/26/2019 6:15 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
CRTC rejects Vista’s bid for a new radio station in Timmins
Media | 03/20/2019 1:31 pm EDT
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...
Gov’t says pirate radio station has gone silent
Media | 03/19/2019 4:23 pm EDT
An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...
Rural broadband, new tax rules among industry pre-budget asks
Media | 03/15/2019 5:55 pm EDT
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...
Press council warns BTLR of ‘gap’ in complaints process for broadcasters
Media | 02/15/2019 4:16 pm EST
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing Canada’s broadcasting laws to express concern about a “gap in the current public complaints framework...
Don’t mandate text message warning for emergency alerts: telecoms
telecom | 02/08/2019 3:29 pm EST
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio
Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
CRTC reviewing capacity of three radio markets
Media | 01/30/2019 2:33 pm EST
The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new...
Corus sees TV ad rebound in Q1
telecom | 01/11/2019 5:14 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
Stingray to acquire Alberta radio station CHOO-FM
Media | 01/08/2019 12:15 pm EST
Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller, Alta. for an undisclosed price.
Stingray announced plans to purchase the adult contemporary station 99.5 Drum FM from Golden West...
Harmonize all emergency alert tests: officials
telecom | 01/03/2019 5:23 pm EST
The current requirements for emergency alert tests, which specify a different schedule for...
CRTC to require big broadcasters to report on women in production
Media | 01/03/2019 3:18 pm EST
The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...
CRTC says Quebec City radio market can’t sustain another station
Media | 12/06/2018 2:35 pm EST
The CRTC has rejected two warring bidders who wanted to set up commercial...
CRTC says yes to new Alta. radio station, no to two Quebec applications
Media | 12/03/2018 3:43 pm EST
In a trio of decisions Monday, the CRTC approved a broadcast licence application for a new station in Cochrane, Alta., and declined both an application for a new station in Lachute, Que. and to renew...
CRTC to hold hearing on Leclerc radio stations acquisition
Media | 11/16/2018 4:54 pm EST
The CRTC will hold a hearing in Quebec City on Feb. 20 that will look into...
Accurate audience measurements for radio lacking, conference hears
Media | 11/09/2018 6:15 pm EST
TORONTO — The radio industry has a “big problem” with a lack of...
Broadcasters ‘perfectly positioned’ to leverage podcast boom
Media | 11/08/2018 6:43 pm EST
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
CRTC says Stingray can buy Newcap; deal to close this week
Media | 10/23/2018 1:43 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s move to enter the Canadian radio market has...
Iristel buys wireless operator specializing in remote areas
telecom | 10/12/2018 2:06 pm EDT
Iristel Inc. has acquired Télécommunications de l’Est (TDE), a small Quebec telecom that provides service to industries operating in remote areas with limited cellular service, such as forestry and mining. Iristel CEO Samer Bishay said in a press release Thursday that much of TDE’s infrastructure overlaps with that of I-Mobileca Inc., a small provider of machine-to-machine communications Iristel bought in May. Iristel said at the time it would use I-Mobileca’s spectrum in eastern Quebec and northern Ontario to launch wireless service in those areas. “Cellular connectivity has...
Cogeco gets CRTC go-ahead for acquisition of RNC stations
Media | 10/11/2018 1:54 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved Cogeco Inc. to purchase 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc., it said in a decision Thursday. “The Commission considers that the RNC stations integrated into Cogeco could...
Quebecor focused on convergence with new radio offering: Desjardins
Media | 10/09/2018 3:50 pm EDT
A new online radio service from Quebecor Inc. indicates the company is...
CRTC consulting on new radio stations in Northern Ontario
Media | 09/28/2018 5:02 pm EDT
The CRTC has opened up a comment period after it received applications from Vista Radio Ltd. for two new commercial radio stations in North Bay and Timmins, Ont. Vista radio currently operates 41...
Broadcast, telecom acts review panel kicks off consultation
telecom | 09/25/2018 5:31 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
Broadcasters slam music industry copyright proposal
Media | 09/25/2018 1:46 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Canada’s private broadcasters are defending Canada’s existing copyright laws and tariff rules and say a proposal to nix a radio royalty exemption in the Copyright Act is an attempt at a cash grab by the recording industry.
That comes after recording...
Government to respond to e-petition on ‘malicious’ pirate radio
Media | 09/21/2018 4:26 pm EDT
An e-petition concerning a Quebec man who allegedly kept operating an illegal radio station, despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has gathered the...
CRTC outlines potential moves on Harnessing Change suggestions
Media | 09/06/2018 5:41 pm EDT
The CRTC said Thursday it is considering taking action on potential changes it outlined in a May report looking at programming distribution models. The Harnessing Change report recommended a number...
ACTRA appoints Lisa Blanchette as public policy and comms director
Media | 08/28/2018 4:40 pm EDT
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has...
A quarter of English-speaking Canadians listen to podcasts
Media | 08/21/2018 4:35 pm EDT
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in...
Jim Pattison buying 4 radio stations in western Canada
Media | 08/14/2018 5:49 pm EDT
The Jim Pattison Group of Companies is adding to its stable of radio...
Bell to overhaul Manitoba public safety comms
telecom | 08/13/2018 2:28 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has won the contract to replace Manitoba’s aging public safety communications service, a...
CRTC says no tangible benefits necessary in radio station sale
Media | 08/10/2018 5:07 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved the sale of a Fort McMurray, Alta. radio station and granted an exemption to the requirement to pay tangible benefits. It approved an application by United Christian...
CRTC opens consult on Stingray-Newcap, Quebecor-Serdy deals
Media | 08/03/2018 3:47 pm EDT
The CRTC has set Sept. 4 as the deadline for comments in two acquisitions in the broadcasting sector. It opened consultations Friday on the proposed acquisition of Groupe Serdy by Quebecor Inc. and...
CRTC consulting on capacity of three Que. radio markets
Media | 08/01/2018 1:10 pm EDT
The CRTC is looking for input on whether it should issue a call for applications for three Quebec radio markets. It said in three notices of consultation Wednesday that it wants comments on the market capacity of Quebec City, Portneuf and Sainte-Marie, Que. Those who are interested in serving the three markets should express their interest during the intervention period, it noted. Interventions in all of the proceedings are due Aug. 31....